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$1 a Month, in Advance. ''Let our just Censure attend the tmo Even*."-Shaksprare. Single Copies Five CentsBy J. A. SELBY. . COLtJMBIA, S. C., FRIDAY MORNING, MAY 19, 1865. VOL. l.-NO. 43.THE COLUMBIA PHONIX,PUBLIS2SD DAILY. EXCEPT ST"NI>AY,15 Y JULI A N A. SE LB Y. 'TERMS-LV ADVANCE. - |SUBSCRIPTION.isix months,, $5 1One month,. .... 1ADVERTISINGOne square, (ten lines,)oi:etime, /IO eta'Subs?quent insertions, - 35 ctsStanzas.ET ALKHEI) TENNYSON. * jWhat time 1 wasted youthful hours,One of the shining winged powersShowed ra-, vast' cliffs, willi crowns of itowers.As towards that gracious light I bowed.They seemed high palaces jind proud,Hid now and then'with sliding cloud.Ile said, "The labor is not sinai";-Yet winds ihe pathway free to ail;Take care thou dost not fear to fal!';"INDIAN LEGEND.-The following !Indian legend, relativo to the spirit- jhome of Washington, is extractedfrom Morgan's Lfagueof the Iroquois, jIt is curious, as showing; the estimationin which 'the Father of his Cc;mtry'was held by this singular people:'Among- the .modern beliefs engraft?ed upon tho . undent faith of theIroquois, there is oue which is worthyof particular notice. It relates to i"Washington. According to their pre?sent belief no whitj man ever reachedthe Indian heaven. Not having beencreated hy the Great Spirit, no pro?vision w,tM made for him in theirschemes of theology. . He- was ex?cluded both from Heaven' and the jplace bf punishment. But an e.vcep- ilion was made in favor of Washing? ?ton. Because of his justice and be- jnevolencs t-- "tfie "Lidiun, KS sV->i !pie eminent above ul! nther whiteman.When, in the year 1783, the Indians Iwere abandoned uv the British alli?-=,mri lett to make their own terms withthe American Government, the Iro?quois were inure exposed to severemeasures than the other tribes in theiralliance-. At this critical moment jWashington interfered in their behalf,as the protector of Indian rights, and jthc? advocate of a pohc.v toward therrfjof the most enliglitened justice andhumanity.'After his death he wa' mourned hy jthe lru<)iijic3 as a benefactor of their !race, aud his me-tnory was cheriabed jwith reverence an.i affection. A belier ?was spread among them that' the jGreat Spirit had received, in- a celes?tial residence, upon the plains ofHeaven, the only white man whose |deeds had entitled bini to the heavenlyfavor. J ust by the entrance of Heaven;s a wall enclosed, the ample groundsof which are laid with avenues andshaded walks. Within is a spaciousmansion, constructed in the fashion offort. Every object that cou! 1 please Ja cultivated taste has been gathered inthis blooming Ed?-?: to?render it ahappy dwelling-place for the immortal ?'Washington. The faithful Indian, nslie enters Heaven, passes the enclosure.He sees the illustrious inmate as hewa'ks to and fro in quiet meditation.But no word passes his lips. Dressedi:i bis uniform, and in a perfect stateff felicity, he is destined to remainthrough eternity in the solitary enjoy?ment of the celestial residence pro?paved for him by tho Great Spirit.''Ye who write LT a btrsy age,' saysa late author, 'speak quick, use shortseuteuces, never stop the .reader with aioug or ambiguous word, but let thestream of-thougbt How rigid, and menwill driuk it l:ke water.' 'A tremen?dous thought may be packed into asmal; compass-made as solid as acanuon ball, and, like that'projectile,cut down all befoie it. Back yourthoughts close together.'Carlyle say? that every battle is abloody conjugation: lI kill, thou kill??t, he kills, we kW. von ki!', theyPresident Johnson on Slavery.On the 14th of January last, An?drew Johnson, then Military Go'ver norof Tennessee, made an address beforethe delegates to the State Conventionwhich abolished slavery iu that Stale:Wo reprint the following extracts fromtim important address. It shows thethoroughly anti-shivery character cfPresident Johnson:'GENTLEMEN: I congratulate you inthe sincerity of my heart on the suc?cessful conclusion of your labors. Itis the greatest work of the age. Inthe great r?volution which is goingforward, you have performed yourj part, nobly. This I say without flat?tery; your work has been well. done.In this momentous struggle in the de?velopment of the groat principles ofhuman liberty, you have dischargedyour duty manfully. Who wouldhave- thought three or four years agothat Termesseeans would have b<>-jnpermitted to assemble ir) this capitollor Such a'purpose without being ?nolested or driven from its halls? TheI ntigl'tj* principles of human rights andI liberty have been pitted against moI nopoly and slavery. Yesterday youbroke the tyrant's rod, and set thecaptive free. (Loud applause.) Yes,gentlemen, on yesterday, you soundedthe death-knell of pe^ro aristocracy,and performed the funeral obsequia* ofthat thing called slavery. You haveopened the grave and let the carcassdown, and all that remains id for yonto seal the pit on thc 22d of Febrtfiry, the*anniversary of the daywhich gave hirth to the Father bf hisCountry. Consecrate your work onthat dn\\I . lea!-a .hyirkVfc?t gratitude that I?have lived ?o ?sea it dunc-, ?rid that Ihave been permitted to. perforai tpylittle part in this great drama. Theblow has been struck, and'slavery liesprostrate. At) insolent, insincere, ig?norant, unfeeling, hypocritical, nefa?rious, diabolical slave aristocracy hasbeen tumbled to the ground. Theywho never learned that"Worth makes-the man, and want of it thefellow,"who lived on tho real or imaginaryhonors ol a buried ancestry, have at,least learned that an ignorant, corruptaristocracy mast go down. Yoursessions have been, on the whole, har?monious, notwithttandjng some littlebickering, which, I think, will passawav with your adjournment.While you think that you haveemancipated black men. I tell you thatyou have emancipated more whitethan blaek men from the insolentdomination of the slaveholder.. Ye*,thje time was not long r.go when you"dared not speak your sentiments. Evenin East Tennessee, where there wereonlv few slave?, an J we always spokemore freely, do >on remember thepower which tho slaveholder exer?cised? how many of our people werecompelled to live on barren ridges andcultivate Hie stony spots, while a fewslaveholders owned thousands of broadacres in the fertile valleys, Which theytilled with their bondsmen.Even you felt their power, andknew the contempt they felt for you.Because, many years ago, I dared tospeak of these things, ? was denouncedas an agrarian and demagogue, whoappealed to the prejudices of thepeople. Thank God, J have lived tosee the day when the people ol* myState have declared themselves free. 1must now urge you to redouble youl'efforts to carry out your work whenyou go hence. If you consummate itwith the same resolution, the foul bjo:of kunian slavery will be removedfrom the escutcheon of the State. 1shall .-ay"nothing of the future condition of the liegrb, nor ol' the electivefranchise. First, organize; time antexperience will regulate tlTe rest. Leu; first get rid of slavery,; let there bino bickering or conflict till we gethat cut cf the wa v. Tl is being .lonewo will take up'other question?, anddispose of them as they arise. Whocould have anticipated three years ago*that we would have progrfssed thusfar? Let us, like wise men, hole? our?selves in readiness to manage the mewquestion* which may aris* in thefuture. There is. no need of givingourselves trouble rrreraaturely.* * *'* * *Go ?home, "not- as rival?, but, agfriends, resolved to save the State andwipo out slavery. To do this isenough for one man to live for. Alife spent in accomplishing a result likethis is well spent. Though some forawhile may sneer, the time will comewhen the nation will he utterly aston?ished that this great monopoly hasbeen submitted to so long. Let noman, then,, delude himself with thedream, the vague hope, that he stillholds on to slavery; let him cut thecord at once, and he will feel-a grestdeal easier.Nor let any man suppose that Ithink" that any portion of the populaceshould be turned forth as loafers, with?out work. The sooner we get ? ut ofthis transition state, which is alwaysthe worst, the better for us, the betterfor-the negroes. In five years fromnow the labor of the bbek man willbe more productive than ever, forfreedom simply means liberty to workand enjoyment of the product of one'slabor. Let us try tp comprehend thetimes in which we live, and the crreatprinciples which sre at work. Thereis a breaking up of old combinations,and men are corni%g together hy theirnatural affinities. Old parties are dis?integrating/and new ideas thrown outamong men of miud, form the basis ofVif.v parries.Hero is the great contest of philan?thropy, of sound reason, of h a man i ty,whose foundation is the Christian re?ligion; a bow of promise, whose baserests upon the horizon and whose spanarches the universe.In the midst of the darkness whichhas been roting on the land for fouryears-a d arkness deeper than that ofthe dark ages-from you. sitting in themidst of carnage and death, has goneforth a light to illuminate the world,and teach mankind that you can hefree. \ feel that God smiles'on whatyou have done, and that it meets tinapprobation of the hosts that surroundlum. Oh, how it contras!.-, with theshrieks, and the cries and waiiingswhich the institution of slavery hasbrought on the land! Look along thebattle-fields of Tennessee, nt the newmade graves; witness your countrymenperishing in battle; see even the God?dess of Liberty, struggling throughdesolation, carnage and blood, and al?most driven from our border.-! MightI not'say with the poet"O, bloodiest picture in- the hook of time!"And yet, out of all this gloomyscene hearns light to illuminate theworld in future years. As your fellowcitizen, who expects in some of yourvalleys to deposit his hones. 1 thankyou again for the nobie work whichyou have done. *The last novelty from Germany is ?musical bed, which receives the wearybody and immediately 'laps it in Ely?sium.' It is an invention of a meeba?nie in Bohemia, and is so constructedthat, by means of hidden mechanism,a pressure upon the bed causes a softand gentle air of Auber to be played,which continues long enough to lullthe most, wakeful to sleep. At thehead is a clock, the hand of whichbeing placed at the hour the sleeperwishes to rise; when tho time arrives,the bed plays a march of Spontoni,with drums and cymbals, and, inshort, with noise enough to rouse theseven sleepers.Sorrow comes soon enough withoutdespondency; it does a man no goodto carry around a lightning rod to at?tract trouble.About Trees.The superiority of our country inregard to tree? may "iOt be known tuall our readers. We have fiftv speciesof oaks in North America; ali Europehas only thirty. North America hasfnr'.y species of pines and firs-theUnited States over - twenty-whileEurope has onlv- fourteen species.Who has pride of country enough tocollect all thc native trees which willgrow, in iTis. latitude?Let us pause, says Miss Cooper inher Kural Hours, to count the days,the months, the years-let us rememberthe g'iterations that must comeand go, tiie cen uries that must rollonward, ere the seed of this year'scones shall produce a wood like thatjust prostrated. The stout? arm soready to raise the axe to-day, mustgrow weak with age, it must drop intothe grave; its bone and sinew mustcrumble into dust long before oiliertrees, tall and great as those, shallagain occupy the same spot.lu Dr. Piper's work on the 'treesof America,' we find a suggestion,which we think should he written inletters of gold, lie says: . The pre?sent noble Queen of England, beforeshe ascended the tlnoue, planted withher own baud an oa'c at Chatsworth,Iii our country, where all are bornsovereign, it is to be hoped that, erelohrr, every lady will deem it her.duty lo imitate England's Queen inthis, and plant at least one tree. Whenour ladies shad do this, then will thowork be dono, and throughout ourbroad land, the reproach of neglect inthis respect, have passed away. Haveyou ever pl-mted a tree, dear lady;you who are reading this? Or haveyour friends or acquaintances under! jrour influence, who are needlesslycut;ing down shade trees by the road?side, or neglecting to plant trees wherethey would be beautiful?. It is towoman we must look for reformationon thia our national decline and fall.How charming, how poetical it wouldbe, if we were to be so indebted to thegentler sex for a national reform inthis respect, that the first thought onseeing a beautiful tree would Le <?>neof grateful homage to worn:;::. We. reier our fair reader to Dr. Piper'smagnificent work 1er some admirable? reasons lor valuing tree-, their utihtyand necessity to the farmer, as well as?their beauty. The portraits of remark?able trees ojivcii in this work, are inthe highest stv'e of art, ami nobly cal?culated tu inspire taste for this crowningglory of nature.In the island of Goa, near Bombay,there is a singular vegetable, calledthe sorrowful tree, because it onlyflourishes in the rntrht. " At sunset noHowers are to be seen, and yet afterhalf an hour it is full of them. Theyyield a sweet smell, but tho sun nosooner begins to .shine upon themthan sotne of them fall off, and othersc'oso up, and ethers continue floweringin the night during the whole year.It will surprise many of our readersto know the gr<;at age to whichseveral varieties of trees attain. Amon^those whose age- hav6 been ascertain?ed, the elm has been known to livemore than 350 years; theehesnut GOO;the cedar SOO;"oaks from 1,000 toI 1,500; and some of tho woods of thetropical clunes for three,-four and fivethousand years.'My dear Colonel, I perceive i youslept during the sermon last Suiuiay:ir. is a very bad habit,' said worthydivine to one of his parishioners. 'Ah.]*octor. 1 could not possibly keepawake, ? was so drowsy.' 'Would it{ not be-well, Colonel, to taken 1 i * t Tesnuff to keep- vou *hwake.' 'Doctor.'was the reply, 'would it not bedwellto put a little snuff in the sermon?'A Cooi,XKS3.- When Semp'iine'swife kicked him out ot* bed, he said:See here, now! you'd better not dothat again! If you do, it will c?.use aJ Coolness?BOOTH'S STAG:: F.CCFNTIUCITWLSConsiderable has boen s-iid aboutBooth, the assassin's, habit of gettingexcited, or so carried away bv' ll: .character be was personnt'n:: upon tlx*stace, as to make H real, instead o'" ;mock attack, upon bis adversary in tbplay. The New York Herald speaksof one instance in that-city, in hisperformance of Richard the Iii, where,roused to excitement, he attacked Mr.E. L. TiIton, the Richmond of th? oc?casion, so violently as to knock him *into the orchestra, nea;ly breaking -h?3 arm.At the commencement of '. lastengagement in Boston, which, by thebye, was at, the Mu-eurn, and not the ?Howard Athenaeum, as stated by theI daily papers, this excitement wasspoken of among the stock corrfpanyat rehearsal, and subsequently Bootieadmitted he bad cut men in some ofhis stace combats. Upon this the lead?ing actor at the Museum, who was toperform Richmond, Renaud, insupporting Booth, speaking to him onthe subject, said: "Mr. Booth, it. mayhe as well that wc understand eachother before commencing ?the perform?ance, there is no necessity of auactor being burt in a stage combat,and mark ray words, if you cu: my[ fingers or even scratch toy person' withI your sword, tiefend yourself in earnest.! for from that moment the combat willj be a real one.'j We may add, in conclusion, thr.t' the Boston professional, who is a.j quiet, gentlemanly man, but who iiasno idea of being cut, to illustrateanother performer's eccentricity, re?ceived not the slightest injury or eveainconvenience in his stace combatswith Booth, who probably thought ir.j ment during that engagement.[Boston Commercial Bulletin.AVitli all his supercilious hearties?ness, Horace Walpole wrote some: very sensible tiling?. 'Hud I children.'i he once said, 'my utmost endeavorsI would be to breed them musicians.I Considering I have no ear, nor even ai thought for music, the preferencei seems odd, and vet it. is embraeed-onfrequent reflection. In short, mv aimwould *.be to make them happy. Ithink it the most profitable method.It is a resource which will last their! lives; unless they grow deaf; it makesi them depend upon . themselves, not ouother?; always amuses and soothes, ifnot consoles, and of all fashionablepleasures, it is the cheapest. It :scapable of fame, without the dangar ofI criticism: and is susceptible of enthi.I siasm, without being priest-ridden."j Not far from the probable site whorej the Sermon on the Mount was deli! ered, uur guide plucked two flower ,j supposed to be of that; species to whichour Lord alluded, when he said, 'Cbn! siderjJie lilies of the field.' Tho calv:-:i of this* giant, lily resembled crimson: velvet, and the "gorgeous flower was ofI white and li^ac, and truly no earthlyj monarch could have boen 'arrayed'fhore gloriously than 'one of these.'! Such is the testimouy of nature to tho1 words spoken by ?ur Lord.\Travels in Palestine._-1-mi There is much truth i:i the follow! ing remarks of Addison: T have found' that the men who are really most fon?;1 cf ladies-who cherish for them tho? highest respect,-are seldom the mostI popular.with the sex. Men of grea:.; assurance, whose tongues are light.yi hung, v. 'io make .words sup; ly thej place of ideas, and place compliment*j in the room of ?entii?tjtit, are their :aI vorites. A due respect for womenleads to a respectful action towardsi them and respect is mistaken by thc ruj 'ur neglect or want of love.'Ile is hanny whose curcumstancesi suit his temper, bur, he is more happyI who cnn suit his temper to circamj stances.